Poker players in Denmark received encouraging news when the Danish Supreme Court recently agreed to hear arguments against a late 2007 law banning poker tournaments held in private clubs.
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Antigua’s Minister of Finance and the Economy Dr. Errol Cort is scheduled to hold a high level meeting with the US Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab and other officials in the USTR’s office in Washington today with the intention to finally resolve the World Trade Organization (WTO) Internet gambling dispute between the two countries over market access for online poker and Internet gambling operators registered in Antigua and Barbuda.
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Poker News – Group sues U.S. government for settlement info – PokerListings.com

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An organization called Public Citizen filed a lawsuit on Monday to get the United States to release details of the concessions it made to other nations to settle its online gambling dispute being handled by the World Trade Organization.
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PokerPages News: South Africa Approves Online Poker, Internet Gambling Regulation Bill

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(Reuters) – South Africa’s parliament approved a new Internet gambling law to regulate an industry plagued by crime and vulnerable to money laundering and terrorism financing, parliamentary papers showed on Monday.

A memorandum attached to the National Gambling Amendment Bill said the interactive gambling industry in Africa’s biggest economy was currently unregulated and “generally plagued” by crime.
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